Episode · My First Million · 2026-10-20
Books mentioned on This 3-hour Elizabeth Holmes doc broke our brains
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Shaan Puri discussed Bad Blood by John Carreyrou.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bad Blood
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou is an investigative non-fiction book detailing the rise and spectacular collapse of Theranos, the infamous Silicon Valley blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes.
Discussed“Now, if you've watched the TV show and other things like that and you've read the book, Bad Blood, you know, basically what happened was the Edison machine pretty much didn't work.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Bad Blood
“And tell me if they were mentioned. I didn't fall. I didn't read the book, but I think that one of our employees killed himself, because he had to testify or something like that.”